Adjustable collar band for shirts



Nov. 26, 1935. w. RUBINSTEIN ADJUSTABLE COLLAR BAND FOR SHIRTS 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed June 25, 1934 Nov. 26, 1935. w. RUBINSTEIN ADJUSTABLE COLLAR BAND FOR SHIRTS 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed June 25, 1954 Nov. 26, 1935. w. RUBINSTEIN ADJUSTABLE COLLAR BAND FOR SHIRTS Filed June 25, 1954 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 fl Z a p% W- 3 h m n 5 3 7 Z W i a Patented Nov.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 3 Claims.

This invention relates to adjustable collar bands for shirts; and an provide a shirt with ing more than one buttonhole in at least one end 5 portion thereof, and improved means for supporting a removable button in connection with the opposite end portion or" the collar band for engagement in any one of said buttonholes.

Another object of the invention is to provide a shirt with an improved collar band embodying the novel elements and features of construc tion herein disclosed, whereby the collar band may be fastened at different points in order to vary the size of the band and also embodying the construction in which a button may be easily applied and removed.

Other objects will appear from the following description, reference being made to the annexed drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view, with parts broken away, of an attached shirt collar and band embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a detail view showing the manner in which the collar button is held in connection with the band.

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic sectional view on the line 44 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view, with parts broken away, showing a variation in the form of the invention.

Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic sectional view on the line fi6 of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view, with parts broken away, of another variation of the invention.

Fig. 8 is a diagrammatic sectional view on the line 8-8 of Fig. '7.

Fig. 9 is an enlarged perspective view, with parts broken away, of an attached shirt collar and band showing an embodiment of means for protecting and preventing tearing of the buttonholes and preventing undesired distortion of the collar band.

of the center pleat before the same is attached to the shirt, thethickness of the material being exaggerated.

The invention is shown embodied in a shirt in which the collar I is permanently attached to the collar band which is in permanent connection with the shirt body 2.

The shirt is constructed so as to open at the front and has an edge 3 formed with button- 5 holes 4 and arranged to overlap the edge 5, so that the buttons 6 along the edge '5 may be engaged in and disengaged from the buttonholes 4.

The collar band comprises an inner wall or surface 1 and an outer Wall or surface 8. The 10 walls 1 and 8 are attached together and to the shirt body 2 along the lower edges of said walls or surfaces and throughout the length thereof, with the exception that the lower edge of the wall or surface 8 is unattached to the lower edge 5 of the wall or surface 1 and also unattached to the shirt body 2 for a short distance adjacent to that end of the band near the edge 5. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the lower edge of the wall or surface 8 is unattached to the shirt and 20 to the wall or surface 1 between the points 9, from which rows of stitches I0 passing through the walls or surfaces 1 and 8 run upwardly and converge near the upper edge of the collar band and near the end of the collar I. This pro- 25 vides a pocket H having an opening 12 at the bottom between the points 9 through which a collar button l3 may be passed into and withdrawn from the pocket.

A button hole I4 is formed through the wall or surface 8and opens into the pocket II. The head of the button l3 may be passed outwardly through the buttonhole l4 when the button is placed in the pocket, the base of the button remaining in the pocket while the stem extends through the buttonhole l4. Or, if the base of the button I3 is of less diameter than the length of the buttonhole M, the base may be passed inwardly through the buttonhole.

The opposite end of the collar band is formed with a buttonhole I5 inclined with respect to the end of the collar button and another buttonhole l6 similarly inclined and formed in overlapping relationship with respect to the buttonhole l5, The button I3 is engageable in either of the buttonholes I5 or IE optionally and, therefore, this construction constitutes an efiective means for varying the size of the collar band, as desired.

The construction shown in Figs. 5 and 6 is the same as that above described, with the exception that two inclined buttonholes l1 and I8 are formed through the wall or surface 8 opening into the pocket II. The button I3 is engageable in either of the buttonholes I! or l8, as desired, and

may be engaged in either of the buttonholes l5 or I6. Thus, this construction provides for greater variation in the size of the collar than does the construction shown in the preceding views of the drawings.

In the construction shown in Figs. 7 and 8, the lower edge of the wall or surface 8 is attached to the lower edge of the wall or surface I and to the shirt body throughout the length of the collar band, thus omitting the opening [2. However, a pocket I9 is formed between rows of stitches 20 running upwardly from the lower edge to the upper edge of the collar band adjacent to the end thereof in like manner as the rows of stitches ill in the preceding views of the drawings. A buttonhole 2! opens through the wall or surface 8 into the pocket l9 and is of sufiicient size to permit the base of the collar button l3 to be passed therethrough for attach ment to or detachment from the collar band. The opposite end of this collar band contains the inclined buttonholes I5 and Hi.

My invention comprises means forming part of the collar band and arranged in cooperative relationship with respect to the walls or surfaces 1 and 8 to protect and prevent undesired distortion of the collar band. In the embodiment shown, said means comprises a woven reinforcement 22 attached to the inner side of the wall 1 and a similar woven reinforcement 23 attached to the inner side of the wall 8. The woven reinforcement 23, which is attached to the wall or surface 8, is arranged so that the buttonhole 14 through the wall 8 and said reinforcement 23 is parallel with the longitudinal inelastic threads 24 and crosses and intersects the transverse inelastic threads 25 of said reinforcement. This protects and prevents tearing of the buttonhole l4 and prevents undesired distortion of this end of the collar band.

At the opposite end of the collar band in which the buttonholes I5 and I6 are formed, at least one and preferably both of the reinforcements 22 or 23 are arranged so that the buttonholes are parallel with the inelastic threads 26 and cross and intersect the inelastic threads 21, while said buttonholes l5 and l 6 extend diagonally with respect to the threads of the woven walls 17 and 8. The buttonhole stitchings 28 around the buttonholes l5 and I 6 pass through the several plies 7, 8, 22, and 23 and the buttonhole stitching 29 around the buttonhole 14 passes through the two plies 8 and 23, thus securing the plies for the respective buttonholes in strengthening and reinforcing relationship.

In the arrangement in Fig. 5, the buttonholes I! and I8 are also parallel with certain of the inelastic threads of the reinforcement 23 in the relationship of the buttonholes l5 and 45 to the inelastic threads 26 and for a like purpose.

infolded marginal edges, 32 of said center pleat and the single thickness of the lining 3|, extendingbetween and attached to the walls or surfaces T and 8 of the collar band, as should be The upper ends of the lining folds easily apparent by reference to Fig. 12 01' the drawings. Between the folded margins 32, only the three plies of material 2, 30, and 31 extend between and are attached to the walls or surfaces 1 and 8 of the collar band. A purpose of removing or cutting away the upper ends of the infolded marginal edges 33 of the lining 3| is to prevent undue thickness and massing of needless material in connection with the collar band, since the vertical rows of stitches 34, attaching the pleat 30 and the lining 3| to the shirt body 2, form a sufiiciently strong and durable connection.

A shirt embodying this invention is more convenient and satisfactory than shirts of usual construction and permits the collar band to be Varied as to size within any practicable limits.

I claim:

1. A shirt having detachable edges, a collar band comprising inner and outer wall portions attached together throughout their length along their upper edges and having their lower edges unattached for a distance adjacent to one end portion thereof and attached together and to the upper end of the shirt throughout the remaining portion of their lower edges, woven elements composed of inelastic threads attached to the inner sides of said wall portionsrespectively, there being a buttonhole through said outer wall portion and through said element attached thereto parallel with said inelastic threads in the attached woven element, rows of stitches running upwardly from the lower edge to the upper edge'of the collar band through said outer and inner wall portions and through said elements at opposite sides of said buttonholaand the opposite end of the collar band having a plurality of buttonholes therethrough inclined with respect to the end of the collar and parallel with inelastic threads of one of said elements and approximately equidistant from thelower edge of the band. 2

2. A shirt having detachable edges, a collar band comprising inner and outer wall portions stitched together throughout their length along their upper edges and along their ends and having their lower edges unattached for a distance adjacent to one end portion thereof and stitched together and to the upper end of the shirt throughout the remaining portion of their lower edges, a woven element composed of inelastic threads attached to the inner sides of said Wall portions respectively, there being, a buttonhole.

7 through saidouter wall portion and through said stitched together throughout. their length along their upper edges and along their ends and having their lower edges unattached for a distance adjacent to one end portion thereof and stitched together and to the upper end of the shirt throughout, the remaining portion of their lower edges, a woven element composed of inelastic threads attached to the inner side of said outer wall portion, there being a buttonhole through said outer wall portion and through said, element approximately parallel with the lower edge of the band and parallel with certain of said inelastic threads, an additional woven element attached between said inner and outer wall portions at the opposite end of the collar and composed of inelastic threads certain of which are inclined with respect to the end of the collar, and

a plurality of buttonholes through the opposite end of the collar from said first named buttonhole parallel with said inelastic inclined threads and approximately equidistant from the lower edge of the band.

WILTON RUBINSTEIN. 

